I've been here as a kid it was definitely a busy one at the time when it was popular. I used to be so excited hearing the music everyone loves marineland on TV I remember the good times I used dance to it. The last time I was here I was 8 years old. And I remember coming here for the second time for a school trip. But now seeing it as adult adult on UA-cam makes me cry. Thanks for sharing. Really bad reputation thry have right now . And their reputation will never be fixed agajn abd the same again.
It’s Niagara Falls so it’ll be developed into subdivisions and hotels which is pretty sad. An amusement park would be a better addition to help tourism in the area and it could be a pretty big one too because of the land available.
I remember when the dolphin tank housed the orcas. I boycotted this park as a child after seeing Free Willy for the first time. I would beg my family not to take me there and they listened. There is such a dark past of animal cruelty with this park and it should have been shut down decades ago.
You don’t speak for me. I’m not a far left moron who wants to tell people how to live. If you hate marine land keep it to yourself. I hate you far left you’ve killed our country.
Those aren’t VIP areas those are offices. It’s where I had my orientation when I worked there in 2006. I was a ride operator for 2 seasons and moved onto the maintenance crew for 2 years. It was only a matter of time before it collapsed. I saw things I didn’t agree with but I have great memories of working at the park. Made life long friends. My last year the decline started to happen very rapidly. The deer pen was always close because of attacks. Bears were always sick. Sky screamer only had one tower operational and we had to take parts of the other towers to keep that one moving. Numerous other rides were constantly down. Dragon mountain was probably the best maintained ride at the entire park. One lonely killer whale that never moved. The activists and Black fish started the final nail in the coffin and the virus hammered it in.
Marine animals need way way way more space than an aquarium can provide. I don't like zoos either but most of the animals are not by themselves so they atleast have others to socialize with.
Thanks for the video, your Marineland series was always enjoyable and I am glad you made it up there for a final visit. I hope the rides as well as some of the themed structures can be preserved to be re-used later. The drop tower offers a very unique view in comparison to other drop towers, and it would be nice to see that one re-open again down the road. I hope it is not the end of the line for Dragon Mountain either. What other station entrances has the Danzig skull as an entry point? Woahh ohh woahhh. I really hope to see these rides re-open down the road. The theming of Dragon Mountain is incredible. Maybe the aquarium theater can re-open as an outdoor concert venue. There is lots of potential for this property, I just hope it isn't rezoned for commercial and real estate, as that can become outdated very quickly. I hope no gaudy buildings sprout up vertically from the property. New owners have their hands full, and this park is gonna take a lot of money to redevelop, I hope they do it responsibly and not partake in some fad. Shopping culture is old world, and residential units are almost always ugly these days.
I hope they preserve Dragon Mountain 😭 My first coaster and so, so strange. I have a coffee table book on roller coasters and there's two pages just dedicated to it.
I hope they rebrand them selves and do some sort of theme park/amusement park and also like wonderland have some winterfest type attraction in the winter or halloween attractions as well when the rides are closed. Because I think Niagara Falls needs it there's only so much you can do around Clifton Hill. It would be a shame if it went to condos or whatever else.
Not that any of Marinelands higher ups will see this But what I think would be a good nostalgia idea is turning the Deer park into a proper waterpark section Then taking the old castle set off the stage and Turing that into a kids slide in the new waterpark section
Great video! Seen all your videos and enjoy seeing how this park oddly evolves. There's so much potenial for some really cool places with all this land. I hope it's done with respect also to the Falls and all that beautiful landscaping. I saw the backstage video and liked seeing the behind the scenes stuff but I do think the staff and whatevers left of their marketing appreciates your resilience to do so as well haha.
I thought that this place closed like 20 years ago. I remember browsing the brochure the year Dragon Mountain opened and being so wowed that it was more than a mile long!!! Haha. We never went. I think we went a few years earlier but I was too little and my memories are so jumbled from that time because every damned theme park in North America had a dolphin tank. It was crazy.
Ya know when you play a theme park or zoo game and there's campaigns for you to take a weirdly designed failing park and fix it? That's what every video of MarineLand reminds me of
I have never been there. I was born and raised in Maryland until 27, when I relocated to Texas. I am familiar with a lot of the history and “lore” of the park however. It seems like such a waste of so much. I hear it has been bought and as you mentioned it is said to be re-done as a theme park of some sort. Apparently the property can only be something along those lines due to zoning. I grew up in the Bush Gardens/Sea World popularity of the 80’s and early 90’s. Before it was a known thing that some of these companies really did not have the animal’s best interests in mind. I used to love Sea World. I would not go for the rides, because growing up, Sea World was about the animals. The issues with the orcas and the attacks and abuse of them was not in the public-at least mainstream and certainly not public for children to hear back then. I’d spend hours feeding the dolphins and watching the animal shows🤦🏼♀️ of course now knowing what I know, I am embarrassed to even admit that I was supporting such things. I get so sad when I see that animals are still here in the park even with so little people there to even interact with them. Captivity is no place for them, but being that they have lived their whole lives in this environment, I’d imagine that at least having attention of people is better than little to no attention or interaction. The belugas break my heart the most every time I see clips of them most recently. Making their noises and popping up and down in their tank. Surprisingly, the park overall, for being closed off mostly for quite a while, and so expansive, seems well taken care of. I can only imagine the money still being poured into that alone. I hope that someone can find out where then animals end up and can do some type of update on that. The park itself has so much potential. It is a beautiful area.
Why on earth did they not totally redesign this park to become the world’s best waterpark instead?? No marine animals but the ultimate waterpark I would have loved that
Without getting a worker in big trouble, I may have heard some workers at Marineland discuss Six Flags being the buyer while they were loading the Dragon Mountain train. I don't think general employees hold that information because I doubt it would be Six Flags. My guess is a smaller company like Herschend or something...
I think you are right about it being a small localized operator next year. Looks like there is zero progress for 2025. I'm thinking they will probably just remove the Marineland name and operate the rides only as is.
@@CoinandRelicOntariothe rides are not getting removed yet, they’re just still winterized. They take parts off of them every winter (for some rides they take off gondolas, other rides the take off some decorative elements, some are covered, some are boarded etc. Actually they have a few decent rides that I still wish will be saved.
This places has always disgusted me. Even as a young child I knew it was wrong, cruel and needless. Glad it is closing, yet what happened/happens with all the Aquatic life???
there's a place i knew in ontario where the sea lions kissed, so the story goes. the lawsuits came, and all involved are lame everyone lovED marine land.
I think an amusement park would thrive in this location pulling people in from buffalo and the surrounding areas, I hope it gets the funding it needs, it needs to rival Canadas Wonderland to succeed imo.
really sad I have great memories of this park not only as a kid but also taking my kids here multiple times a week when I lived in niagara in 2010 to 2013
This was my childhood park back in the early 90’s and 00’s my last visit was back in 2017 and had mixed memories of the place. I hope they build a new amusement park out of it something like Kennywood, Waldameer, Cedar Point etc.
63 years of torturing animals and this park is finally done. As someone who personally flipped this place off every time they drove past it, I'm happy these people won't be in the possession of anymore animals. Marineland truly is one of the biggest embarrassments of the Niagara People. So many times charges had to be laid on these guys. So many articles about animals dying and whistleblowers coming out. So many families coming out of there, shaking their heads at the atrocious conditions of the animal habitats, and the animals themselves. Fortunately, but unfortunately, this park is getting a new life... unlike the lives this park took. Good riddence 🫡
I went as a kid w my familly (did the whole trip from montreal) i was kinda blinded at the time at the cruelty etc.. (i was only 8-12 yrs old also) but after hearing evrrything abt that park i never went again
Seeing those dolphins just makes me sad for humanity. I'm going to miss Marineland for the good that it offered, but I'm glad the animals are slowly moving on. I just hope it's as you say, to Bigger and better things. I have refused to go for years. If it opens as an amusement park, I'll be there year 1. Great video. I appreciate your content!
I wish we knew who exactly bought this park. I hope is was Cedar Fair. It would be awesome to get a true, original IP amusement park. Similar to Lost Island in Waterloo, Iowa. Obviously no more animals as well.
I honestly never understood why people keep animals in cages and tanks on display. What's the appeal of watching a depressed and injured animal huddled in a corner of a tiny and confined space? I guess some people have never heard of whale watching and safaris. Viewing animals in their natural habitats is so much more special and educational to me.
@Alexandra-rb7ju Times have changed, my friend. Back in the day it was common to have animals as entertainment. They used to have Bears ride tricycles, it was twisted. We're more educated now and have grown as a society when it comes to animal treatment.
I remember when I went to marineland their was more marine life, now it’s so abandoned, also I think they should make a universal theme park they’re im just saying
It looks exactly the same since the 1970’s. Probably the only time I went there as a child. I remember the killer whales. Looking at it now hard to believe the beautiful whales were in such a small pool. Much nostalgia
I didn’t go to Marine Land after I was old enough to understand, I’m glad it was sold I couldn’t give a penny to that family again. I would be fine going under the new owners if it gets redeveloped and even if some of the marine animals are still there, at this point they sadly can’t be released back to the wild, they’re immune system can’t handle being released, I hope they get transferred somewhere else.
I also went here as a child, as a kid it seemed so harmless and fun. Sad to see where the park has gone and that animals were treated so poorly.
I've been here as a kid it was definitely a busy one at the time when it was popular. I used to be so excited hearing the music everyone loves marineland on TV I remember the good times I used dance to it. The last time I was here I was 8 years old. And I remember coming here for the second time for a school trip. But now seeing it as adult adult on UA-cam makes me cry. Thanks for sharing. Really bad reputation thry have right now . And their reputation will never be fixed agajn abd the same again.
I really hope they keep Marineland open as a Theme Park. There's so much space and so many ideas that never got to see the light of day.
It’s Niagara Falls so it’ll be developed into subdivisions and hotels which is pretty sad. An amusement park would be a better addition to help tourism in the area and it could be a pretty big one too because of the land available.
I remember when the dolphin tank housed the orcas. I boycotted this park as a child after seeing Free Willy for the first time. I would beg my family not to take me there and they listened. There is such a dark past of animal cruelty with this park and it should have been shut down decades ago.
Wow, I had no idea. I've only ever been once, but never liked the place.
I think I speak for everyone when I ask, "HOW are they still OPEN??"
Yes. Boycott Marineland. Never give them money. Sentient creatures shouldn't be held captive. Ever. Ever.
@@OntarioAtOrion when I was a kid, we would sing along with the commercial: "everyone HaTeS Marineland!" Lol
@@oophelia46 same!
You don’t speak for me. I’m not a far left moron who wants to tell people how to live. If you hate marine land keep it to yourself. I hate you far left you’ve killed our country.
I'm glad you explored this park one final time. And I hope it does have a renaissance under new owners.
Those aren’t VIP areas those are offices. It’s where I had my orientation when I worked there in 2006. I was a ride operator for 2 seasons and moved onto the maintenance crew for 2 years. It was only a matter of time before it collapsed. I saw things I didn’t agree with but I have great memories of working at the park. Made life long friends. My last year the decline started to happen very rapidly. The deer pen was always close because of attacks. Bears were always sick. Sky screamer only had one tower operational and we had to take parts of the other towers to keep that one moving. Numerous other rides were constantly down. Dragon mountain was probably the best maintained ride at the entire park. One lonely killer whale that never moved. The activists and Black fish started the final nail in the coffin and the virus hammered it in.
Stockholm Syndrome
How can people get mad at Maryland from having animals in captivity and then those same people go to the zoo, what’s the difference?
The orca whale they had needs waaaaaaaaayyyy more space than one might think.
Marine animals need way way way more space than an aquarium can provide. I don't like zoos either but most of the animals are not by themselves so they atleast have others to socialize with.
@@JFDoria79 tru
Amusement park would be perfect there considering Wonderland has limited land to expand on. You could do endless fun on that large plot of land
I've heard in other videos that the new owner is Six Flags Cedar Fair.
Seeing those two dolphins in the tank made me incredibly sad
Yup, breaks my heart!
This would be like being relegated to a small coat closet your whole life. They’re meant to have the entire global ocean accessible to them.
If you’re hungry enough they’ll look good to you.
After seeing all these videos I wanna take the trip up for next season!
I wish I could of gone one last time but I know I would of cried my eyes out .
Thanks for the video, your Marineland series was always enjoyable and I am glad you made it up there for a final visit.
I hope the rides as well as some of the themed structures can be preserved to be re-used later. The drop tower offers a very unique view in comparison to other drop towers, and it would be nice to see that one re-open again down the road.
I hope it is not the end of the line for Dragon Mountain either. What other station entrances has the Danzig skull as an entry point? Woahh ohh woahhh.
I really hope to see these rides re-open down the road. The theming of Dragon Mountain is incredible. Maybe the aquarium theater can re-open as an outdoor concert venue.
There is lots of potential for this property, I just hope it isn't rezoned for commercial and real estate, as that can become outdated very quickly.
I hope no gaudy buildings sprout up vertically from the property. New owners have their hands full, and this park is gonna take a lot of money to redevelop, I hope they do it responsibly and not partake in some fad. Shopping culture is old world, and residential units are almost always ugly these days.
I would love to see this place opened up as an animal rescue not open to the public!!!!!!!!!
Stupidest thing I've ever heard in my life, goofball
I’d like to see DisneyLand Niagara Falls
I hope they preserve Dragon Mountain 😭 My first coaster and so, so strange. I have a coffee table book on roller coasters and there's two pages just dedicated to it.
I’m baffled as to how they’re still open. I really hope this is the end of the place and that another theme park takes over
Me too
@@OntarioAtOrionI mean I think house cats are ok right? lol
If marine land does close Canadas Wondrerland is going to use dragon mountain for parts
Or Six Flags Darien Lake
@@stampynate0007 I hope not. It would be better if they kept it and actually finished it.
@@stampynate0007 I hope not. I hope they preserve it or actually finish it
Great video. Thanks for posting this. Have a nice day.
I made it out once this year
I was not happy that my 10yr old was too big for the few slides they have
I hope they rebrand them selves and do some sort of theme park/amusement park and also like wonderland have some winterfest type attraction in the winter or halloween attractions as well when the rides are closed. Because I think Niagara Falls needs it there's only so much you can do around Clifton Hill. It would be a shame if it went to condos or whatever else.
It is shocking that no news still has come out about what will happen with this property, I agree to lose it to condos would be a terrible move.
Not that any of Marinelands higher ups will see this
But what I think would be a good nostalgia idea is turning the Deer park into a proper waterpark section
Then taking the old castle set off the stage and Turing that into a kids slide in the new waterpark section
Great video! Seen all your videos and enjoy seeing how this park oddly evolves. There's so much potenial for some really cool places with all this land. I hope it's done with respect also to the Falls and all that beautiful landscaping. I saw the backstage video and liked seeing the behind the scenes stuff but I do think the staff and whatevers left of their marketing appreciates your resilience to do so as well haha.
The writing was on the wall long ago
Love going when I was young with family . John holder was great , what happen after sad to see .
I thought that this place closed like 20 years ago. I remember browsing the brochure the year Dragon Mountain opened and being so wowed that it was more than a mile long!!! Haha. We never went. I think we went a few years earlier but I was too little and my memories are so jumbled from that time because every damned theme park in North America had a dolphin tank. It was crazy.
Ya know when you play a theme park or zoo game and there's campaigns for you to take a weirdly designed failing park and fix it? That's what every video of MarineLand reminds me of
The one and only time I went there was in 2010 to celebrate my Kindergarten graduation.
I have never been there. I was born and raised in Maryland until 27, when I relocated to Texas. I am familiar with a lot of the history and “lore” of the park however. It seems like such a waste of so much. I hear it has been bought and as you mentioned it is said to be re-done as a theme park of some sort. Apparently the property can only be something along those lines due to zoning. I grew up in the Bush Gardens/Sea World popularity of the 80’s and early 90’s. Before it was a known thing that some of these companies really did not have the animal’s best interests in mind. I used to love Sea World. I would not go for the rides, because growing up, Sea World was about the animals. The issues with the orcas and the attacks and abuse of them was not in the public-at least mainstream and certainly not public for children to hear back then. I’d spend hours feeding the dolphins and watching the animal shows🤦🏼♀️ of course now knowing what I know, I am embarrassed to even admit that I was supporting such things. I get so sad when I see that animals are still here in the park even with so little people there to even interact with them. Captivity is no place for them, but being that they have lived their whole lives in this environment, I’d imagine that at least having attention of people is better than little to no attention or interaction. The belugas break my heart the most every time I see clips of them most recently. Making their noises and popping up and down in their tank. Surprisingly, the park overall, for being closed off mostly for quite a while, and so expansive, seems well taken care of. I can only imagine the money still being poured into that alone. I hope that someone can find out where then animals end up and can do some type of update on that. The park itself has so much potential. It is a beautiful area.
Why on earth did they not totally redesign this park to become the world’s best waterpark instead?? No marine animals but the ultimate waterpark I would have loved that
Might be because we only have summer for 70 days, lol.
Without getting a worker in big trouble, I may have heard some workers at Marineland discuss Six Flags being the buyer while they were loading the Dragon Mountain train. I don't think general employees hold that information because I doubt it would be Six Flags. My guess is a smaller company like Herschend or something...
You didn’t hear shit, that ride isn’t even operational…
Dont know why youre so mad 😅 it was operating last season
@@ricecake2753you have no clue what you’re talking about….that ride isn’t even open.
@@dawnmarie8797 like I said in another reply, this was last season, when the ride was open....
@ricecake2753, I'm sure SeaWorld coould be the one
I think you are right about it being a small localized operator next year. Looks like there is zero progress for 2025. I'm thinking they will probably just remove the Marineland name and operate the rides only as is.
Most of the rides have been removed already as you can see in a video from another blogger a month ago.
@@CoinandRelicOntariothe rides are not getting removed yet, they’re just still winterized. They take parts off of them every winter (for some rides they take off gondolas, other rides the take off some decorative elements, some are covered, some are boarded etc. Actually they have a few decent rides that I still wish will be saved.
This places has always disgusted me. Even as a young child I knew it was wrong, cruel and needless.
Glad it is closing, yet what happened/happens with all the Aquatic life???
there's a place i knew in ontario
where the sea lions kissed, so the story goes.
the lawsuits came, and all involved are lame
everyone lovED marine land.
Is it me or is everything in Canada is folding up like a cheap tent?
I think an amusement park would thrive in this location pulling people in from buffalo and the surrounding areas, I hope it gets the funding it needs, it needs to rival Canadas Wonderland to succeed imo.
The owner Marie Holer just died as well
Yay!
really sad I have great memories of this park not only as a kid but also taking my kids here multiple times a week when I lived in niagara in 2010 to 2013
I guarantee the “other guy” snuck onto the property threw the maintenance gates at the back of the park
Marineland Canada Closed Permanently Date?
Today
This was my childhood park back in the early 90’s and 00’s my last visit was back in 2017 and had mixed memories of the place. I hope they build a new amusement park out of it something like Kennywood, Waldameer, Cedar Point etc.
Local Rumours are that herschend family enterprises has purchased the land
That rock reminded me of superman the escape.
63 years of torturing animals and this park is finally done.
As someone who personally flipped this place off every time they drove past it, I'm happy these people won't be in the possession of anymore animals.
Marineland truly is one of the biggest embarrassments of the Niagara People.
So many times charges had to be laid on these guys.
So many articles about animals dying and whistleblowers coming out.
So many families coming out of there, shaking their heads at the atrocious conditions of the animal habitats, and the animals themselves.
Fortunately, but unfortunately, this park is getting a new life... unlike the lives this park took.
Good riddence 🫡
I went as a kid w my familly (did the whole trip from montreal) i was kinda blinded at the time at the cruelty etc.. (i was only 8-12 yrs old also) but after hearing evrrything abt that park i never went again
Sick shirt bro 🤟
Legends
That place is barbaric. Sentient beings shouldn't be kept in captivity. Any of them. Period.
Seeing those dolphins just makes me sad for humanity. I'm going to miss Marineland for the good that it offered, but I'm glad the animals are slowly moving on. I just hope it's as you say, to Bigger and better things. I have refused to go for years. If it opens as an amusement park, I'll be there year 1. Great video. I appreciate your content!
It didn't offer anything good
@@chrisparker7214 I have awesome family memories. And it began my journey into Animal Care. There was definitely good!
I wish we knew who exactly bought this park. I hope is was Cedar Fair. It would be awesome to get a true, original IP amusement park. Similar to Lost Island in Waterloo, Iowa. Obviously no more animals as well.
I honestly never understood why people keep animals in cages and tanks on display. What's the appeal of watching a depressed and injured animal huddled in a corner of a tiny and confined space? I guess some people have never heard of whale watching and safaris. Viewing animals in their natural habitats is so much more special and educational to me.
@Alexandra-rb7ju Times have changed, my friend. Back in the day it was common to have animals as entertainment. They used to have Bears ride tricycles, it was twisted. We're more educated now and have grown as a society when it comes to animal treatment.
Its not, cedar fair doesn't exist anymore and someone i know in the industry has hinted at who it may be.
@@nikiarnold5991it is probably sea world that bought it
From what I was told it was Six Flags related
Sad to see dolphins there and belugas.
I never gone here before but I recently did wale watching in Boston Massachusetts and it was more fun to see them free and doing their thing
Oh no, what happen to Marineland? 😯😯😯
I remember when I went to marineland their was more marine life, now it’s so abandoned, also I think they should make a universal theme park they’re im just saying
Maybe they should open a Ripley's Aquarium.
Not happening. Cedar Fair is going to gut the whole place over the next couple years
There’s one in Toronto right next to the CN tower
I went there 11 years ago it was dead in there.
I went here as a kid
Wow 1000 acres 😮
I'm so happy that I Moneylandclosing
I wonder if all the real animals here are going to be replaced with either animatronic or holographic ones.
What happened to the place over the years to become this mess
It looks exactly the same since the 1970’s. Probably the only time I went there as a child. I remember the killer whales. Looking at it now hard to believe the beautiful whales were in such a small pool. Much nostalgia
Who is feeding the animals left in the park as they can't be left there to starve
Employees are!!
I was there once to ride dragon mountain park wasnt worth the trip their ride package sucked.no loss here
2:22 seeing this dolphin makes me wanna ball my eyes out
bonjour!
The bugula whales are wondering where are all the people.
They're also wondering what happened to the rest of their extended family, and wondering what they did to deserve this fate.
I hope they keep some of those castle buildings, so nostalgic for me
So sad
Animals left are probably very lonely, hand full of guest a year. Lacking money
Hi
……..hi…
My god, what a dump
soo sad.
Good riddens !
:O
I didn’t go to Marine Land after I was old enough to understand, I’m glad it was sold I couldn’t give a penny to that family again.
I would be fine going under the new owners if it gets redeveloped and even if some of the marine animals are still there, at this point they sadly can’t be released back to the wild, they’re immune system can’t handle being released, I hope they get transferred somewhere else.
Fun times in the 70s and 80s. Beyond that, it was a shit show. Lilely another casino resort in the works.
Their orca Kiska was kept all alone in a small tank for over a decade until she died.
Nobody Loves Marineland
Shame on you.
Okay